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Apr 17, 2020, 5 tweets

SPECIAL REPORT: Michael Hudson told The last American Vegabond that the #US was seeking to reimpose a debt for #Oil system that it had enjoyed under pre #Chavista governments in #Venezuela :
By: @_whitneywebb
#COVID19 #OilPriceWar
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Under U.S.backed dictators, #Venezuela provided the collateral for its debt with its oil reserves #America wants to give #IMF loans to Venezuela and oversee the collateralization of Venezuela’s foreign debt with its oil reserves and then foreclose.
#American
#TrumpIsAnIdiot

They want to find an excuse to do to #Venezuela what it did to #Argentina , to grab Venezuela’s oil reserves as collateral by … preventing Venezuela from paying its foreign debt, [thus] forcing it to default on its foreign debt.
#TrumpPandemic #COVID19 #TrumpIsAnIdiot

Taken in combination with #elliottabrams recent statements, the massive U.S. military build-up and the collapse of U.S. #oil markets, such events seem to be pointing in the direction of an invasion being more likely than not.
#Argentina #TrumpPressBriefing
#TrumpIsAnIdiot

On the other hand, there is also the fact that most of the U.S. population is on lockdown due to the #CoronavirusPandemic making domestic resistance against such an invasion unlikely to manifest in any significant way.
#Argentina #Covid_19 #fridaymorning #TrumpIsAnIdiot

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